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Tool support apparatus

US4380842A · kind A · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateJul 23, 1981
Grant dateApr 26, 1983
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Expiry dateJul 23, 2001

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC B)Performing Operations; Transporting
  • CPC primaryB22C23/02
  • WIPO fieldMaterials, metallurgy
  • WIPO sectorChemistry

Abstract

Tool support apparatus having a frame mounted on wheels and motors for driving the wheels to move the frame. A ram tube carrying different tools at its lower end supported in a cylinder mounted on an oscillator bracket which cooperates with an oscillator slide carriage slidably mounted on shafts supported on the frame and a hydraulic cylinder mounted on the frame for moving the oscillator slide carriage along the shafts. An electric motor for moving the lower end of the ram tube in a first arcuate direction and another electric motor for moving the lower end of the ram tube in a second arcuate direction in a plane perpendicular to the plane of movement in the first arcuate direction. A hydraulic cylinder attached to the ram tube for moving it vertically.

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